The meeting of the Eighty Club on Wednesday was rather
remarkable for the extreme moderation of its tone. Dr. Spence Watson, the chief guest, was as moderate and reason- able as Liberals used to be before the split in their ranks, and Mr. Morley followed snit in a speech of which there was hardly a sentence to which we could not subscribe. If the tone of the Newcastle Conference had been the tone of the Eighty Club, we should have had very little objection to take to it. But Mr. Morley let the cat out of the bag when he said that it was right to give very warm sympathy to men who advocate doubtful remedies in a spirit of confidence and eagerness with which it is not easy to agree, on the ground that it is this sort of vehement groping for remedies which produces the right remedy in the end. But does it not often produce a great many wrong and mischievous attempts at remedy, before it hits upon the true remedy, and does it not apply wrong remedies which retard or prevent the adoption of the right one ?
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